Tag Archives: books

Offbeat reflections on serious living.

A film novelization showing the different qualities inherent in the written word and the visual form.

Steve Goodman: Face The Music: new biography of the man who wrote "City Of New Orleans"

A writer uses her resources and talents to intimately detail and explore personal loss.

How does the first anthology of British blogging stand up against a comparable newspaper collection? Rather well.

The fact that I, or anybody else for that matter, write at all is pretty darn special.

This debut novel's unique voice compellingly tells the story of young African boy pressed into soldierhood in a civil war.

A wonderfully written exposition on and exploration of the primal experience of hunger.

The book is well-structured, starting from the basics and explaining what you are doing in close to "ordinary" English.

Frank McCourt’s second memoir, ‘Tis, isn’t as good as its predecessor, Angela’s Ashes, but it’s still a moving and impressive work. McCourt’s wit and memories remain amusing and touching in this second memoir. As McCourt himself describes here, there was quite the backlash against him after Angela’s Ashes became so …